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Scheme of Work

Area of Study 2 - Christianity

Introduction

This Scheme of Work covers the requirements for Area of Study 2 of GCSE Religious Studies Specification A through a study of Christianity. This area of study comprises a study in depth of Christianity as a lived religion within with the United Kingdom and throughout the world. There are two sections: Beliefs and Teachings; Practices.

Students will be expected to study Christianity within the context of the wider British society, the religious traditions of which are, in the main, Christian. Students should recognise that Christianity is one of the many religious traditions in Great Britain, which include Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism. This knowledge may be applied throughout the assessment of the specified content. Students should compare and contrast two areas of belief and practice within Christianity with one of these religions practiced in Great Britain:

● Beliefs about the afterlife and their significance (1.6)*

● The practice and significance of worship (2.1)*.

Students should also recognise that within Christianity there may be more than one perspective in the way beliefs and teachings are understood and expressed. Common and divergent views within Christianity in the way beliefs and teachings are understood and expressed should be included throughout including reference to Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and other Christian traditions. The significance and importance of the various beliefs and practices to Christians today should be explored throughout the two sections.

This Scheme of Work can be used alongside or to complement other materials which are available on our website. The suggested references and links given in this scheme are provided to help teach the course in a rigorous and enjoyable manner. There is no requirement to use all the material or to study all the references to cover the specification content. In each section, materials that are known to be enjoyed by the students and that they have used before in the classroom can be used as an alternative.

Section 1: Beliefs and teachings

|Week |Section |Learning outcomes |Content |Exemplar resources |

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|1 |Section 1:1 |Students will be able to: |Know and understand the nature, history and purpose of the Trinity |Information about the Trinity can be found in various places |

| | |Know and understand the nature, history |as shown in the Nicene Creed and each person of the Trinity |including on the BBC website. |

| | |and purpose of the Trinity as shown in |(AO1) |Students could use a copy of the Nicene creed and highlight in three|

| | |the Nicene Creed |Students should be given the opportunity to summarise the main |different colours the information about each of the Persons of the |

| | |Know and understand the nature and |beliefs about each of the persons. |Trinity. |

| | |importance of each Person of the Trinity |Students should be able to refer to the Nicene Creed, summarising |Students could produce a consequence wheel for the beliefs, with the|

| | |Assess and analyse the importance of |the text as clearly as possible and knowing how it links to the |Trinity the central hob and how they are expressed in a ring around |

| | |these beliefs for Christians |Trinity. |the central hob. Outside of this, in another ring, they could write |

| | | |Students may wish to swap summaries written individually and assess|why they are important. |

| | | |each other’s work. |Student then need to produce a Fact File on each of the Persons of |

| | | |Students could also create their own questions relating to the |the Trinity, including the nature of the person, why they are |

| | | |bullet point. |important to Christians and biblical evidence including Matthew |

| | | | |3:13-17 as part of the information. |

| | | |Assess and analyse the importance of these beliefs for Christians | |

| | | |(AO2) | |

| | | |Students should assess why the beliefs are important and link the | |

| | | |importance to how the beliefs are expressed. | |

|2 |Section 1:2 |Students will be able to: |Know and understand the biblical account of creation and the |Information on the biblical creation can be found in various places |

| | |Know and understand the biblical account |different ways it can be understood (AO1) |including videos on TrueTube. |

| | |of creation and the different ways it can|Students should be able to find the biblical accounts and be able |Students could produce an image/storyboard/display of the biblical |

| | |be understood specifically as literal and|to both retell the accounts and explain them. They should know how |creation. |

| | |metaphorical |each of the beliefs relate to worship, their view of authority, |Students could then discuss the different ways this is understood: |

| | |Know and understand the role of the Word |moral decision making and lifestyle. |literally true, ages=days, purely symbolic and the reasons for the |

| | |and Spirit in creation including John | |different beliefs. They could summarise the reasons for these views |

| | |1:1-18 and Genesis 1-3 |Know and understand the role of the Word and Spirit in creation |in a table or spider diagram. |

| | |Assess and analyse the importance of |including John 1 and Genesis 1-3 (AO1) |Students could have copies of the required references and highlight |

| | |these beliefs for Christians today |Students should be familiar with and understand the biblical |in colours the information about creation by ‘Word’ in one colour |

| | | |references to Creation in Genesis 1-3 and John 1:1-18. |and by ‘Spirit’ in another. They should discuss why the biblical |

| | | |Students should note the use of the words ‘Word’ and ‘Spirit’ and |accounts show creation in this way. |

| | | |what they show about God and creation. |Ask students to complete a consequence wheel (three concentric |

| | | | |circles). In the centre write the words ‘Biblical creation’, in the |

| | | |Assess and analyse the importance of the belief about the creation |next circle out write down different beliefs and in the outside row |

| | | |for Christians today (AO2) |the impact of these. |

| | | |Students should assess why the beliefs are important and link the | |

| | | |importance to how the beliefs are expressed. | |

|3 |Section 1:3 |Students will be able to: |Know and understand the nature and importance of the person of |Information about the incarnation can be found in various places |

| | |Know and understand the nature and |Jesus Christ as the incarnate Son of God (AO1) |including the BBC website and on YouTube. |

| | |importance of the person of Jesus Christ |Students should be able explain why it is important for Christians | |

| | |as the incarnate Son of God for |to believe that Jesus is God made human (incarnate) (carne = meat |Students could start by finding out what the word incarnation means.|

| | |Christians |on Italian menus = flesh, so it is literally God made flesh). |The students could then investigate/research the incarnation as |

| | |Know and understand the biblical basis of| |shown in the Bible, including John 1:1-18 and 1 Timothy 3:16 and in |

| | |the teaching about the incarnation |Know and understand the biblical basis of the teaching about the |Church statement. They could work in groups and present their |

| | |including John 1:1-18 and 1 Timothy 3:16 |incarnation including John 1:1-18 and 1 Timothy 3:16 (AO1) |findings to the rest of the class or produce displays. |

| | |Assess and analyse the importance of the |Students need to have studied the two references and be able to |Students should assess the importance of the incarnation by |

| | |biblical basis of the teaching about the |explain what they teach about the incarnation. |producing a list of how it impacts on the beliefs, worship and |

| | |incarnation for Christians today | |everyday life of Christians. |

| | | |Assess and analyse the importance of the biblical basis of the |Students should attempt some exam style questions and attempt to |

| | | |teaching about the incarnation for Christians today (AO2) |peer mark them. |

| | | |Students should assess why the beliefs are important and link the | |

| | | |importance to how the beliefs are expressed. | |

|4 |Section 1:4 |Students will be able to: |Know and understand the nature and importance of the last days of |Information about the last days can be found in the Bible but there |

| | |Know and understand the nature and |Jesus’ life from the Last Supper to the resurrection and referring |are also very good videos of the last days available. Alternatively,|

| | |importance of the last days of Jesus’ |to the ascension (AO1) |students could look at a variety of paintings of Jesus and how they |

| | |life from the Last Supper to the |Students should know how the Bible records what happens in the last|show his deity/humanity. |

| | |resurrection and referring to the |days of Jesus and who was involved. They might be able to link the |Ask students to discuss the last days of Jesus using Luke Chapters |

| | |ascension |events to Old Testament prophesies and why Christians might |22-24 in pairs and then produce a timeline of the events in this |

| | |Know and understand how the last days of |perceive the events in Jesus life as being predicted in the Old |time, including where it takes place, who was involved and what it |

| | |Jesus’ life from the Last Supper to the |Testament. |shows about Jesus. |

| | |resurrection and referring to the | | |

| | |ascension were shown in the Bible |Know and understand how the last days of Jesus’ life from the Last |Students could produce information cards about an event in the last |

| | |including Luke 22-24 |Supper to the resurrection and referring to the ascension were |days, mix them up and ask students to put them in order. Use these |

| | |Assess and analyse what the last days in |shown in the Bible including Luke 22-24 (AO1) |to discuss what the events show about a) Jesus and b) his followers.|

| | |the life of Jesus and the ascension show |Students should be given the opportunity to summarise the main |(Possibly in a ‘Top Trumps’ style if you have access to computers |

| | |about the person of Jesus |events in the last days of Jesus’ life according to the Bible. |and a template.) |

| | | |Students may wish to record the events and their significance for | |

| | | |Christians, which they could primarily do individually and then |Students could produce a number of pictures to show the events in |

| | | |assess each other’s work. |chronological order and what they show about Jesus. These could |

| | | | |then form a display around the classroom – this provides a visual |

| | | |Assess and analyse what the last days in the life of Jesus and the |reminder for them to revise from. |

| | | |ascension show about the person of Jesus (AO2) | |

| | | |Students could create their own questions relating to the events in| |

| | | |the Bible showing the last days of Jesus and decide what they think| |

| | | |Christians might think they show about the person/nature of Jesus. | |

|5 |Section 1:5 |Students will be able to: |Know and understand the nature of salvation linked to: law, sin |Using a search engine, divide up students and ask them to research |

| | |Know and understand the nature of |grace and Spirit and the role of Christ within salvation (AO1) |one words from a list of law, sin, grace, Spirit, atonement and |

| | |salvation and the role of Christ within |Students should know what salvation means to Christians and how |salvation. Ask students to write an information page, including |

| | |salvation |they think law, sin, grace and Spirit are linked to salvation. |information about what it is and why it is important for Christians.|

| | |Know and understand Christian teachings | |They can try to find evidence for the word in the Bible using the |

| | |about atonement and how it links to |Know and understand Christian teachings about atonement and how it |Bible Gateway search function. |

| | |salvation |links to salvation including John 3:10-21 and Acts 4:8-12 (AO1) | |

| | | |Students should understand why Christians believe in atonement and |Organise a hot seat situation whereby students have to question each|

| | | |how it might lead to salvation. Students must study John 3:10-21 |other to find out about the other words that they have not |

| | | |and Acts 4:8-12. |investigated. |

| | | | | |

| | | | |Give students definitions for: |

| | | | |Atonement - ‘The teaching about the reconciliation of God and |

| | | | |humankind, gained by the life, suffering, and death of Christ.’ |

| | | | |and |

| | | | |Salvation - ‘Being delivered from the results of sin’. |

| | | | |Provide the Bible references John 3:10-12 and Acts 4:8-12. |

| | | | |Ask students to explain the links between the references to the |

| | | | |definitions and check understanding around the room. |

|6 |Section 1:6 |Students will be able to: |Know and understand the the nature and importance of divergent |Ask students to discuss the concept of life after death in pairs and|

| | |Know and understand the nature and |Christian teachings about resurrection, judgement, heaven, hell and|then use either a list, spider diagram or mind map to record their |

| | |importance of divergent Christian |purgatory with reference to the 39 Articles of Religion (AO1) |ideas about resurrection, judgement, heaven, hell and purgatory. |

| | |teachings about life after death |Students should know what Christians believe happens after death | |

| | |Know and understand the nature and |and be aware that different groups of Christians have slightly |Give students a card with one of resurrection, judgement, heaven, |

| | |significance of life after death for |different beliefs. |hell and purgatory on them. They then have to research using a Bible|

| | |Christians | |(or search engine) and find out about that Christian belief. |

| | |Analyse and assess the significance of |Know and understand how beliefs about life after death are shown in|Students form groups of five, containing each Christian belief. They|

| | |beliefs about life after death for |the Bible (AO1) |then need to share the information they have found out with the rest|

| | |Christians |Students need to look at a number of biblical references and |of the group, so all students have information about each belief. |

| | |Compare and contrast beliefs in the |understand what Christians might believe it teaches about life | |

| | |afterlife and their significance with |after death. Include reference to 2 Corinthians 5:1-10. |Ask students to identify divergent beliefs that they have discovered|

| | |Christianity and the other religion | |whilst doing their research. Ensure they understand that not all |

| | |studied (Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, |Assess and analyse the divergent understandings of why they are |Christians believe the same things about life after death, |

| | |Judaism or Sikhism) |important for Christians today (AO2) |especially differences concerning hell and purgatory. |

| | | |Students should assess why the beliefs are different to varying | |

| | | |groups, include reference to the 39 Articles of Religion and the | |

| | | |Catholic Catechism, and why they vary in importance. Link the | |

| | | |importance to how the beliefs are expressed. | |

|7 |Section 1:7 |Students will be able to: |Know and understand the problem of evil and a loving and righteous |Information about the problem of evil can be found on many websites |

| | |Know and understand the problem of evil |God and the nature of natural and moral evil including Psalm 103 |and there are some useful YouTube/TrueTube clips. |

| | |and a loving and righteous God and the |(AO1) | |

| | |nature of natural and moral evil |Students should know what the classical problems of evil and |Ask students to discuss in small groups how they feel Christian |

| | |Know and understand the problems it |suffering are, be aware of who has described them and understand |beliefs in God might or might not be affected by the problem of |

| | |raises for Christians about the nature of|the difference between natural and moral evil. |evil. Ask them to focus on whether Christians should believe God |

| | |God | |exists and whether Christians should question whether God is |

| | |Analyse and assess the reasons why the |Know and understand the problems it raises for Christians about |omnipotent and benevolent (more able students should be asked to |

| | |problem of evil might cause believers to |whether Christians should believe God can be an omnipotent or |find out about the inconsistent triad). |

| | |question their faith |benevolent God (AO1) |Students should summarise the discussions in the way they feel most |

| | | |Students should understand what problems the issue of evil and |suitable, such as a written paragraph or a table of the different |

| | | |belief in God causes for Christians, especially when they consider |arguments. |

| | | |the nature of God as being omnipotent and benevolent - Psalm 103. | |

| | | | |They should then attempt an exam style question from the Sample |

| | | |Assess and analyse why the problem of evil might cause believers to|Assessment Materials. |

| | | |question their faith (AO2) | |

| | | |Students should assess why the problem of evil and suffering might | |

| | | |mean that Christians question whether they should believe that God | |

| | | |exists and that God is all powerful and all loving. | |

|8 |Section 1.8 |Students will be able to: |Know and understand the Christian solutions to the problem of evil |Information about the solutions to the problem of evil can be found |

| | |Know and understand divergent Christian |and suffering and a loving God (AO1) |on many websites including the BBC and YouTube. |

| | |solutions to the problem of evil and |Students should know how Christians respond to the problem of evil.| |

| | |suffering and a loving God |They should recognise that these are not solutions so that it is |Ask students to discuss the ways Christians respond to the problem |

| | |Know and understand the biblical, |easy to believe in God, rather they are responses or - ways |of evil in pairs and then produce a mind map to record the main |

| | |theoretical and practical solutions |Christians react to the problem of evil and suffering. |ideas. |

| | |Christians have suggested to the problem | | |

| | |Assess and analyse how successful the |Know and understand the biblical, theoretical and practical |Give students a list of examples of Christian responses (note – not |

| | |various solutions are |solutions Christians have suggested to the problem (AO1) |solutions) including reference to biblical responses like Psalm |

| | | |Students should know how Christians respond, using biblical |119:66-71 and the story of Job, theoretical responses, the vale of |

| | | |stories. Using theodicies, more able students might want to look at|soul-making and free will and practical responses like prayer and |

| | | |Augustine or Irenaeus and finally practical responses such as |charity. |

| | | |prayer and charity and what these might achieve. | |

| | | | |Ask students to write a full letter response from a Christian |

| | | |Assess and analyse the success of the various responses suggested |perspective to someone who says that the problem of evil means |

| | | |by Christians and whether they solve the ‘Problem of Evil’ (AO2) |Christians should not believe in God. |

| | | |Students should assess why the beliefs are important and link the | |

| | | |importance to how the beliefs are expressed. | |

Section 2: Practices

|Week |Section |Learning outcomes |Content |Exemplar resources |

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|1 |Section 3:1 |Students will be able to: |Know and understand the nature and purpose of Christian worship |Information about forms of Christian worship can be found in various|

| | |Know and understand the nature and |(AO1) |places including on the BBC website. |

| | |purpose of Christian worship |Students should be given the opportunity to summarise the main |Students could produce a summary or mind map to record definitions, |

| | |Know and understand the divergent forms |beliefs about what worship is. |examples of and information about |

| | |of Christian practice and significance of| |Worship |

| | |worship |Know and understand the divergent forms of Christian practice and |Informal worship |

| | |Assess and analyse the value of |significance of worship (AO1) |Formal worship |

| | |liturgical and non-liturgical worship |Students need to know about the different forms of worship, |Liturgical worship |

| | | |liturgical and non-liturgical, they need to know when each form is |Non-liturgical worship |

| | | |used, by whom and why, including reference to the Book of Common |Students could produce a Fact File on each of the liturgical and |

| | | |Prayer. |non-liturgical forms. They need to know when each form is used, by |

| | | | |whom and why, including reference to the Book of Common Prayer and |

| | | |Assess and analyse the value of liturgical and non-liturgical |other evidence. |

| | | |worship (AO2) |They could then answer a (d) style question on liturgical worship to|

| | | |Students should assess why the beliefs are important and link the |show reasons why it might be seen as important and why it might not |

| | | |importance to how the beliefs are expressed. |be seen as important. They should attempt to peer mark them using |

| | | | |the levels in the Sample Assessment Materials. |

|2 |Section 3:2 |Students will be able to: |Know and understand the role of sacraments in Christian life and |Information on the sacraments can be found in various places |

| | |Know and understand the role of |their practice in two denominations (AO1) |including videos on TrueTube, information on Baptist |

| | |sacraments in Christian life and their |Students should know about the nature and role of sacraments in |sacraments/ordinances |

| | |practice in two denominations |Christian life. |resources/articles/two-ordinances-baptis|

| | |Know and understand the nature and | |m-and-the-lords-supper/ |

| | |practice of baptism and Eucharist in two |Know and understand the nature and practice of baptism and |and Catholic sacraments |

| | |denominations |Eucharist in two denominations (AO1) |vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p2s2c1a1.htm |

| | |Assess and analyse the divergent |Students should specifically know about baptism and the Eucharist | |

| | |importance of sacraments in Orthodox, |in two denominations. It would be good to choose two that have |Students could produce an image/storyboard/display for each of the |

| | |Catholic and Protestant Churches |different practices, such as Baptist and Catholic practice. |denominations. Baptists would have two ordinances and Catholics have|

| | | | |seven sacraments. |

| | | |Assess and analyse the divergent importance of sacraments in | |

| | | |Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant Churches (AO2) |Students could be given a copy of 39 Articles XXV-XXXVI to lead into|

| | | |Students should recognise the different attitudes to the validity |a discussion of why different groups of Christians have different |

| | | |and importance of sacraments in different denominations. |numbers of sacraments and arrive at a list of at least four reasons |

| | | | |why. each should have an example or quote to go with them. |

| | | | | |

| | | | |Divide students into three groups. Ask one group they have to |

| | | | |complete research about sacraments in the Orthodox tradition. Ask |

| | | | |the second group they have to complete research about sacraments in |

| | | | |the Catholic tradition. Ask the third group they have to complete |

| | | | |research about sacraments in the Protestant tradition. |

| | | | |They should then feed back to the class and each student should end |

| | | | |up with information about each of the groups to assess why the |

| | | | |sacraments are important to each denomination. |

|3 |Section 3:3 |Students will be able to: |Know and understand the nature and purpose of prayer (AO1) |Information about Christian prayer can be found in various places |

| | |Know and understand the nature and |Students should be able to explain what prayer is and why |including the BBC bitesize website and |

| | |purpose of prayer |Christians pray. |prayer-worship/worship/texts/daily2/lordspra|

| | |Know and understand examples of the | |yercreed.aspx. There are a number of YouTube clips showing the |

| | |different types of prayer |Know and understand examples of the different types of prayer (AO1)|Lord’s Prayer. |

| | |Assess and analyse divergent Christian |Students need to know about the different types of prayer, when is | |

| | |attitudes to the importance of each type |type is used and why. |Students could discuss and research prayer using the Internet or |

| | |of prayer |Set prayers |textbooks. They can find out: |

| | | |Informal prayer |the different types of prayer with examples |

| | | | |who uses it |

| | | |Know about and understand use and importance of the Lord’s prayer |when they use it. |

| | | |(AO1) |They can then produce a summary document/page or a mind map to |

| | | |Students should know what the Lord’s Prayer is, they should |record their findings. |

| | | |understand the biblical basis of the prayer from Matthew 6:5-14 and| |

| | | |how it is used by Christians. |Students could be given a copy of Matthew 6:5-14 and a copy of the |

| | | | |Lord’s Prayer to compare. They should then discuss the reasons why |

| | | |Assess and analyse divergent Christian attitudes to the importance |Christian use the prayer. |

| | | |of each type of prayer (AO2) | |

| | | |Students should assess the divergent views that Christians have |In order to learn about the importance of the Lord’s prayer they |

| | | |towards the different types of prayer. |could look at the controversy caused by an advert about the Lord’s |

| | | | |prayer bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34891928. |

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| | | | |Students should assess divergent Christian attitudes towards each of|

| | | | |the different types of prayer by producing two tables of reasons. |

| | | | |1. Why set prayer is important and unimportant. |

| | | | |2. Why informal prayer is important and unimportant. |

| | | | |The table should include at least four reasons each with |

| | | | |example/quotes. |

| | | | | |

| | | | |Students should attempt some (c) exam style questions and attempt to|

| | | | |peer mark them. |

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|4 |Section 3:4 |Students will be able to: |Know and understand the nature, history and purpose of pilgrimage |Information about pilgrimage can be found on the Internet, including|

| | |Know and understand the nature, history |(AO1) |. |

| | |and purpose of pilgrimage |Students should know what pilgrimage is, they should know about the| |

| | |Know and understand the significance of |history of pilgrimage as a whole, about specific places and why |Ask students to research on the Internet and find information about |

| | |the places that people go on pilgrimage |Christians go on pilgrimage today. |what a pilgrimage is and why Christians go on them, including |

| | |Assess and analyse the importance of | |interpretations of Luke 2:41-43. |

| | |pilgrimage for Catholic and Protestant |Know and understand the significance of the places that people go | |

| | |Christians today |on pilgrimage (AO1) |Divide the class in four and instruct each group to look at one |

| | | |Students should be given the opportunity to know about these places|specific place of pilgrimage to find out its history and what |

| | | |of pilgrimage and what happens there |happens there. |

| | | |Jerusalem |Jerusalem |

| | | |Iona |Iona |

| | | |Taize |Taize |

| | | |Walsingham |Walsingham |

| | | | |With this information they should write a summary about place of |

| | | |Assess and analyse the importance of pilgrimage for Catholic and |pilgrimage. Students can then do a hot seat session to share |

| | | |Protestant Christians today (AO2) |information about all four places. |

| | | |Students should discuss why pilgrimage may or may not be important | |

| | | |for Christians. |Students could do a media search (online or newspapers) for examples|

| | | | |of Catholic and Protestant pilgrimage and then produce work |

| | | | |(poster/powerpoint/written summary) to show why pilgrimage may or |

| | | | |may not be important for Christians. |

|5 |Section 3:5 |Students will be able to: |Know and understand Christian religious celebrations (AO1) |Information on Christian religious celebrations can be found in |

| | |Know and understand Christian religious |Students should know the nature and history of festivals in the |various places on the Internet including |

| | |celebrations |Church (liturgical) year. |prayer-worship/worship/the-liturgical-year.a|

| | |Know and understand the reasons why | |spx. A liturgical year chart can be found at |

| | |specific Christian religious celebrations|Know and understand the reasons why specific Christian religious |blogs/markdroberts/pages/liturgical-year-chart/ or |

| | |are held |celebrations are held (AO1) |en/content/ocarm/liturgical-year-2013-2014 (Catholic).|

| | |Assess and analyse the importance of |Students should understand why Christians celebrate Advent, | |

| | |specific Christian religious celebrations|Christmas, Holy Week and Easter. Students must study 1 Corinthians |Give students/or display a liturgical calendar and ask student what |

| | | |15:12-34 and understand the importance of Easter, as shown in the |they know about it. Discuss the seasons in the Church year and which|

| | | |passage. |they think are important and why. Ask them to summarise (written or |

| | | | |as a mind map) what the main festivals are and why they are |

| | | |Assess and analyse the importance of specific Christian religious |celebrated. |

| | | |celebrations (AO2) | |

| | | |Students should assess the importance of celebrating festivals for |Divide up students and ask them to research one festival from a list|

| | | |Christians, specifically analysing Christmas and Easter. |of Christmas, Easter, Advent and Holy Week. Ask students to write an|

| | | | |information page including information about what it is, examples of|

| | | | |how it is celebrated and why it is important to celebrate. They |

| | | | |should use biblical quotations to support the reasons why it is |

| | | | |celebrated (including 1 Corinthians 15:12-34 for Easter). |

| | | | | |

| | | | |Organise a hot seat situation whereby students have to question each|

| | | | |other to find out about the other celebrations that they themselves |

| | | | |have not investigated. |

| | | | | |

| | | | |Ask students to discuss in small groups which celebrations they |

| | | | |think are important and why. |

| | | | | |

| | | | |Divide the class with one half doing a consequence circle with |

| | | | |‘Easter in the centre, two outer rings to help them think about the |

| | | | |immediate consequences of celebrating and then the secondary |

| | | | |consequences, helping them see why it is celebrated. |

| | | | | |

| | | | |The second half could do a consequence circle with ‘Christmas’ in |

| | | | |the centre, with two outer rings to help them think about the |

| | | | |immediate consequences of celebrating Christmas and then the |

| | | | |secondary consequences, helping them see why it is celebrated. |

| | | | |They should then explain their circles to each other. |

|6 |Section 3:6 |Students will be able to: |Know and understand the history and purpose of missionary and |Information on Christian missionary and evangelical work can be |

| | |Know and understand the history and |evangelical work (AO1) |found in various places on the internet including |

| | |purpose of missionary and evangelical |Students should know that the Church has always been a missionary |catholic-faith/the-new-evangelisation/wh|

| | |work |one since the Early Church and they must learn how this has |at-is-the-new-evangelisation (Catholic) and |

| | |Know and understand the divergent ways |continued and why, including referring to Mark 16:9-20 and John | (Church of |

| | |the Christian faith is spread locally, |20:21-22. |England). |

| | |nationally and globally | | |

| | |Analyse and assess the importance of |Know and understand the divergent ways the Christian faith is |Ask students to research Church history and discuss the concept of |

| | |evangelising for the Church and the |spread locally, nationally and globally (AO1) |missionary/evangelical work in church history in pairs. Then use |

| | |individual Christian |Students need to know the different ways that Christianity is |either a list, spider diagram, mind map or consequence circle to |

| | | |spread locally, nationally and globally. |record their ideas about the importance of missionary/evangelical |

| | | | |work throughout Church history. |

| | | |Assess and analyse the importance of evangelising for the Church | |

| | | |and the individual Christian (AO2) |Ask students to find out about the different ways that the Christian|

| | | |Students should assess the importance of evangelisation, whether it|faith has been spread in the past and how it is still spread today. |

| | | |works or whether it has little effect. |They need to find out what has been done locally in parishes, |

| | | | |nationally and globally. They need to share their information and |

| | | | |make a list of four ways, each with an example. |

| | | | | |

| | | | |Students should assess the importance of evangelising by producing a|

| | | | |list of how it may impact on people locally, nationally and |

| | | | |globally. |

| | | | | |

| | | | |Students should attempt some exam style questions and attempt to |

| | | | |peer mark them. |

|7 |Section 3:7 |Students will be able to: |Know and understand how the local church helps the individual and |Information about the work of the local church can be found on many |

| | |Know and understand how the local church |the local community (AO1) |websites and there is some useful information on many parish |

| | |helps the individual and the local |Students should know how the local church helps the individual |websites which show what those churches do. |

| | |community |believer and the local areas by ecumenism, outreach work, being a | |

| | |Analyse and assess the importance of the |focal point and providing a place of worship. |Ask students to produce a mind map including all the work that a |

| | |local church | |local church (parish) does and why they do it (who it helps and |

| | | |Assess and analyse the importance of the local church (AO2) |how). |

| | | |Students should analyse the need for the local church to provide | |

| | | |for the individual and the local area, they should include |Ask students to discuss in small groups whether they feel the local |

| | | |reference to 1 Peter 5:1-4. |church is important. |

| | | | |Then ask then to draw a table recording reasons why it is important |

| | | | |and reasons why it is not important. Ask them to develop each |

| | | | |reasons with an example or quote. |

| | | | | |

| | | | |They should then attempt an exam style question from the Sample |

| | | | |Assessment Materials. |

|8 |Section 3.8 |Students will be able to: |Know and understand the role of the Church in the worldwide |Information about the role of the Church in the worldwide community |

| | |Know and understand the role of the |community and the problems it faces (AO1) |can be found on many websites including the BBC, |

| | |Church in the worldwide community and the|Students should know what the Church does in the world and what it |.uk/mission/world-church and en/.|

| | |problems it faces |aims to achieve, especially in terms of social justice and belief, | |

| | |Know and understand the work of Christian|including reference to 1 Corinthians 13 and Matthew 25:31-46. They |Divide students into groups and ask them to research the work of the|

| | |Aid |should recognise that there is persecution of the Church in some |Church in the world to ensure that the faith spreads and that people|

| | |Analyse and assess the importance of the |parts of the world. |are treated well (social justice) through charity work. Ask the |

| | |Church in the worldwide community | |groups to produce a mind map to summarise their ideas which they |

| | | |Know and understand the work of Christian Aid (AO1) |should then share with the class. They should ensure that they |

| | | |Students should know the work of Christian Aid, what they do and |incorporate reasons why the Church works in this way into their mind|

| | | |why. |map (1 Corinthians 13 and Matthew 25:31-46). |

| | | | | |

| | | |Assess and analyse the importance of the Church in the worldwide |Show students articles from the news which show that in some part of|

| | | |community (AO2) |the world Christians are persecuted e.g. |

| | | |Students should assess why the Church is important in the worldwide|christian-persecution/ |

| | | |community. | |

| | | | |

| | | | |st-persecuted-people-9630774.html |

| | | | |Students should discuss these and record in some way (mind |

| | | | |map/poster/written work/ppt) how and why Christians are being |

| | | | |persecuted in the world. |

| | | | | |

| | | | |Ask students to find out about the work of Christian Aid. They need |

| | | | |to find a minimum of four things they do and why they do them (there|

| | | | |are a range of textbooks that have this information and it is |

| | | | |readily available on the Internet on the Christian Aid website). |

| | | | | |

| | | | |Students should assess the importance of the Church in the worldwide|

| | | | |community by producing a two column table to show reasons why the |

| | | | |Church in the worldwide community is important and why the Church in|

| | | | |the worldwide community is unimportant. |

| | | | |The table should include at least four reasons each with |

| | | | |examples/quotes. |

| | | | | |

| | | | |Students should attempt some (c) exam style questions and attempt to|

| | | | |peer mark them. |

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